Upcoming Events

This spring join UGA’s Richard B. Russell Library for Civic Knowledge, Civic Power, a weekly lunch and learn series focused on developing a better understanding of Congress. On Tuesday, April 3rd Dr. Anthony Madonna from the UGA Department of Political Science will speak about how a bill becomes a law, with a focus on recent efforts to reshape healthcare legislation. The program will take places in Room 277 of the Special Collections Building from 12:30-1:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. For more information call 706-542-5788 or visit www.rbrl.blogspot.com

Can the American Congress be ethical in an age of intense partisan warfare?

Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN political analyst, will take up the topic of ethics in Congress on Thursday, April 5 at 4:00 PM in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. The lecture will explore past debates over ethics reform, as well as the push for new oversight and enforcement amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct.

This event is free and open to the public; a light reception will follow the program. The event is co-sponsored by the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the UGA School of Public and International Affairs, and the UGA Department of History. For more information on this and other events in the Civic Knowledge, Civic Power event series, visit www.rbrl.blogspot.com or call 706-542-5788.

Can the American Congress be ethical in an age of intense partisan warfare?

Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN Political Analyst, will take up the topic of ethics in Congress on Thursday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. The lecture will explore past debates over ethics reform, as well as the push for new oversight and enforcement amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct.

Julian E. Zelizer is the author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015), Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989 (2010), and On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004) among others works. He has edited 10 books on American political history, with subjects ranging from the politics and the media to the presidency of George W. Bush. In addition to his scholarly articles and book chapters, Zelizer is a frequent commentator in the international and national media on political history and contemporary politics. He has published over seven hundred op-eds, including his weekly column on CNN.Com. He is a regular news commentator on radio, television and in print. He has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and New America.

Join us in the DigiLab (Main Library, Room 300) for a workshop about regression and mixed-effects modeling with R.

This series of workshops is a continuation of last semester's R series. They will introduce the concepts and power behind the programming language R. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary.

Full schedule of this semester's workshops, all led by Joey Stanley. :

January 19 - Intro to R Part 1
January 26 - Intro to R Part 2
February 2 - Building Interactive Web pages in R: Introduction to Shiny Part 1
February 9 - Building Interactive Web pages in R: Introduction to Shiny Part 2
February 16 - Visualizations I: Introduction to ggplot2
February 23 - Visualizations II: Customizing plots in ggplot2
March 2 - Visualizations III: Advanced topics in ggplot2
March 9 - Communicating to your audience with R Markdown
March 23 - Clean and tidy data: Tidyverse Part 1
March 30 - Transform, reshape, and modify your data: Tidyverse Part 2
April 6 - Special topics: Regression and mixed-effects modeling
April 13 - Special topics: Network analysis
April 20 - Special topics: Working with text

This spring join the Richard B. Russell Library for Civic Knowledge, Civic Power, a weekly lunch and learn series focused on developing a better understanding of Congress. On Tuesday, April 10th Dr. Michael Lynch from the UGA Department of Political Science will discuss balancing the federal budget. The program will take places in Room 277 of the Special Collections Building from 12:30-1:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. For more information call 706-542-5788 or visit www.rbrl.blogspot.com